On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:07:02 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
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>> But we'll see. Win95, after all, was before Microsoft had serious
>> competition for the x86 desktop.
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>Yes. Important fact. A natural transition from 3.1 (the upgrade then was more
>considerable and compelling). Then there were the toys and a very immature
>kernel for GNU. Yes, Sun and others were there too but not very visible to
>home users...
There was also OS/2. I had a featureful, pretty robust 32-bit OS long
before Win 95 was released. I kept hoping that IBM would take
advantage of MS's delays, but they sure fumbled that one.
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